Making a Living By Giving Away Things for Free

Making a Living

by Giving

Things Away

Sarah Glassmeyer

#RealTalk

You can live very

comfortably

and work in Open

& Non-Profits.

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It’s never too late

to chuck it

all and start over.

PhD in Environmental

Chemistry

Works for US EPA

Works for US EPA through a

Republican Administration

and several GOP congresses

BS Business/ Finance & MBA Entrepreneurial

Studies

Capitalist Pig

Type A Driven Geek

Mr. Personality

Always making things and doing

get rich schemes (often

using slave labor of little sisters)

There’s a reason

it’s called

the establishment.

Always

be

hustling.

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LAW SCHOOL

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LIBRARY SCHOOL

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Sarah Glassmeyer, JD MLSReference Librarian and

Associate Professor

Law

LibrariesAcademe

Me

ESTABLISHMENT

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FUCKED UP THINGS

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Access to Justice

Law School

Curriculum

Legal Publishi

ng

Access to Law

Tenure System

Information Deserts

Legal Scholarshi

p

Technology Gaps

Vendors

ABA

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MACHIAVELLI

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It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

-Niccolò MachiavelliThe Prince

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

-Niccolò MachiavelliThe Prince

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"[Punk] is about looking at the world around you and asking, 'Why are things as fucked up as they are?’ And then it's about looking inwards at yourself and asking, 'Why aren't I doing anything about this?'“

- Dan SinkerFounder, Punk Planet

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EduPunk

LibPunk

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Everything comes

to him that

hustles while he

waits.-Thomas Edison

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The best way to

complain is

- James Murphy

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Talk to lots of

people.

Listen and Learn

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Volunteer for

projects that

you have no idea

how to do.

Experiment

and then fail.

Fail better.

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Find

your

people.

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Figure out who

you are and

what you want.

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Everyone has a plan until

they’re punched

in the face.

-Mike Tyson

Open Source

Open Access

Open Law/Data

Open Education

Open StandardsMetadata – West KeyNumber System

Software – Library Automation, EdTech, etc.

Academic Scholarship – Law Journals

Primary Law – Westlaw, Lexis, Boomberg

Casebooks, Syllabi, etc.

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(Richard Stallman)

Non-profits let you

concentrate

on products not

profits.

Open products

get improved

in ways that you

can’t imagine.

Open products

continue to

live on even if

you don’t.

(FIN) (Or is it…?)